A 57-year old Dominican father of two makes a living by collecting discarded prize tickets at betting parlors in Manhattan. The New York Times tells his story in its 8 December issue. “For the past 10 years, Jesus Leonardo has been cleaning up at an OTB parlor in Midtown Manhattan, cashing in, by his own count, nearly half a million dollars’ worth of winning tickets from wagers on thoroughbred races across the country,” reports the newspaper. The report says he makes an average US$45,000 a year going through the collected discarded tickets, and even pays taxes on the earnings.
See: www.nytimes.com/2009/12/08/sports/08otb.html?_r=2&th&emc=th